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(oh, the suspense...) I get a kiss - I don't have to pack it, file it, write a check for it, refrigerate it, microwave it - and one size fits all. Don't need a card - I have the real thing and he brings his own sentiment.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Murphy SidingHeck, I think even I know your birthday. Do I need to send driver a reminder a couple days in advance? If I did that twice a year, would you get twice as many cards and presents?
Mookie Medicare is pretty self-sufficient once you are enrolled. Get a good supplement and you won't be sorry. My own dear, sweet husband and a very close girlfriend (best man @ our wedding), convinced each other that my b'd was in November one year. I put it in the box with all my other complexes and sealed the lid. Belated Happy BD wishes.
Medicare is pretty self-sufficient once you are enrolled. Get a good supplement and you won't be sorry.
My own dear, sweet husband and a very close girlfriend (best man @ our wedding), convinced each other that my b'd was in November one year. I put it in the box with all my other complexes and sealed the lid.
Belated Happy BD wishes.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Having Birthdays beats the alternative!
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Yesterday, I saw, in Washington, a Viewliner sleeper on the wrong train. My train was parked beside the Silver Meteor for several minutes, and I saw a car that should be on the Cardinal instead--New River.
I had a pleasant day today, seeing more of the Northern Neck of Virginia than I had seen before. Among other notables, I saw a house built in 1699 for one of my anscestors (I do recall which one it was; I'll look it up when I get back Home next week); also, I have no idea as to who lives there now. As to notable birthplaces, I saw Robert E. Lee's birthplace, and the areas where George Washington, James Madison, and James Monroe were born. An attempt is being made to build a replica of the house where James Monroe was born. From what I saw, the house was not nearly as imposing as Stafford is. I also visited a cemetary where one of my cousins(whom I never met) is buried.
By, the way, where George Washington was born the Potomac is about seven miles wide. Ferry Farm, where he grew up, is on the Rappahannock, and it is not quite so wide. Perhaps Parson Weems did not realizr this?
Last year, I visited the place where my parents met. The dock where my father was working when he saw my mother as she came off a boat to visit her aunt and the house where my aunt and her family lived (I saw them in in 1941) are all gone. My great-aunt's husband had a store on the dock. Also, the ferry that went across the Rappahannock there is long gone (riding it in 1941 gave me my first ferry ride), replaced by a bridge farther down the river.
For the benefit of those who are unaware of Virginia nomenclature, the Northern Neck is the land between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers.
Tomorrow, for Washington, and Saturday for Utica!
Johnny
Randy Stahl I'll be in Warren Ohio next week buying locomotives. Anyone want to hang out and annoy some strippers ? (Shining bright lights in thier eyes usually does it) Randy
I'll be in Warren Ohio next week buying locomotives. Anyone want to hang out and annoy some strippers ? (Shining bright lights in thier eyes usually does it)
Randy
There was a guy, someone said he had worked at the CNW diesel shop at Marshalltown, IA, who had the high hood and cab from a GP/SD engine in his back yard. It was on an old farmstead east of Colo, IA along what had once been US 30. I believe he has moved since it's been gone, along with a few other CNW items he had, for a few years now. When I worked east you could see it from the tracks.
While waiting to get called, I have the Weather Channel on. A few minutes ago they had as their local view from across the US the scene from the Baily Yard Visitor's Center web cam in North Platte.
Jeff
mudchickenLocomotive cab could double as Mookie's extra room and half bath.
Perfect!
(Millie would be jealous, even though it was/is a GM project.)
Might be a little hard to get Millie out of the detached garage. Locomotive cab could double as Mookie's extra room and half bath.
A nice size for my backyard and maybe my office and...comes with a pony!
MookieI have $50.00 left over in the household $ - wonder what size locomotives I could buy...Hmm
Should have went to the NS aucttion. Probably could have gotten a GP38-2 for that.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.t fun any
Wrong forum. check the MR forum next door...
RSS
tree68 Mookie has some space in her back yard.....
Mookie has some space in her back yard.....
Built in 1988.
The average price for a locomotive of this type is 205,000.00.
I want to go home now, I don't travel well anymore..
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Randy - can you give us a mfg date on any of those engines and what one used engine price range would be?
I bought 4 C40-8 engines today. Interestingly enough the last engine I looked at was coupled to the MM&A 5018... creepy...
I spent many nights on 5018 running on the Moosehead sub
afternoon
Summerlike here in Nw Ohio.Matt was closed today due to fog.Matt had a surprise visit from former neighbors.They couldn't stay too long.Ns local was uptown when I left work.Off to mow the swamp.
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Johnny, our typical Tuesday these days has us docenting at the Peck House Museum all afternoon, so it's unlikely that we'd be able to get in for you this trip. This afternoon we were there, and I got a little bit of work done. But I also, for the first time in quite a while, made a tally of the trains going through. Things were rather routine, right up until the end of the day at 4:00 p.m.:
1305--Track 3, an eastbound scoot.1325--Track 3, a westbound scoot.1330--Track 2, an eastbound stack train...long, and pulled by only one unit!1345--Track 3, a westbound intermodal train.1400--Track 3, a westbound stack train...four units.1405--Track 1, an eastbound scoot.1424--Track 3, a westbound scoot.1430--Track 2, a westbound WPSX train of empty hoppers and gons--two units on the point, one DP on the hind end.1436--Track 3, a westbound intermodal train, 3 units.1450--Track 2, a westbound stack train, 3 units.1514--Track 1, an eastbound scoot, moving slowly (it was later announced that the train was delayed by "track construction").1524--Track 3, a westbound scoot.1550--a westbound manifest, Track 2.1605--Track 1 to 3, an eastbound scoot.1607--Track 1 to 2, a westbound frac-sand train, two units on the point and two DP units on the hind end. This train crept up while the manifest was headed west, but had to wait for the scoot to cross over in front of him.
So this was 15 trains total, in roughly three hours. Of course I was disappointed that there weren't more, but one train every 12 minutes or so is not too shabby!
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
I have ridden the first leg of my fall trip, arriving in Chicago about five minutes early this afternoon. I'm sorry Mookie, but I slept right through Lincoln (and Omaha).
The trip across Wyoming was uneventful, though I did see three pronghorns near Speer. I did not sight any jackalopes anywhere, though.
In Hanna, I noticed three ancient gondolas on a sidetrack--one Rio Grande and two UP; Flopsy and Mopsy were guarding the ends of the siding; I expect Cottontail was also on duty, but Peter was probably in Mr. MacGregor's garden.
As we went into Denver, I noticed that some tracks that branched off the main had flop-over derails, and others had split-rail derails on both tracks.
Carl, I will be back through a week from today, coming in on the Late Shore Limited, and leaving on the Zepher at 3:35 in the afternoon. Amtrak has not given me any times between here and Denver, but has told me that we will leave Denver at 12:35 the next afternoon, and get me home at 3:35 Wednesday morning. I have no idea as to what time I will go through Lincoln.
Mother nature sent us some rain.Time to get changed and go to our meeting.
Joe
Uh-oh -- Caught by Mike Yuhas and 4 others of the Trains Tribe. No Wrinnie this time at Indy.
Have to behave for two more days.
Miningman ...it's all CODE...
Or that joke that's making the rounds about the prison inmates who had heard all the jokes, so they numbered them. Someone would call out "47!" and everyone would get a good chuckle. Then a new guy called out "99!" to rip-roaring laughter. When he asked why the huge response, he was told "we haven't heard that one before..."
But Norm, we do say that!Or at least we've been known to...Tomorrow I'm hoping to see a few noteworthy freight trains during our weekly stint as museum docents. I took a well-deserved break today, after getting out my second report on freight car sightings in a week. It only took a trip to dinner in LaGrange to grab enough material for a report, becoming aware of over 1000 new freight cars being built. I saw a couple of brand-new BNSF covered hopper cars, and in looking up their series (which contains 660 cars), I found another new series from a different builder that has or will have 420 cars. The high point, though, was seeing three or four new double-stack well cars for the Utah Central Railway--there will be 200 of those, in UCRY series 57000-57199! Then, in looking for more information on those, I found that UCRY is also getting 50 Auto-Max rack cars (plain white...try not to think about FEMA or shackles!), and 230 new high-roof 50-foot box cars. As far as I know, these are all the first new equipment UCRY has owned...they also have a bunch of secondhand Center-beam flat cars.
I do check in on this thread here and there, from time to time, and it finally dawned on me ...it's all CODE...like the Underground resistance would receive during WWII over short wave from Britian.
Will now attempt a response.
"John has a long moustache"
Repeat "John has a long moustache"
"The dice are on the table"
Repeat " The dice are on the table"
Carl,
You ain't old yet. When you have earned the right to say 'Get off my lawn' you are old.
An old fart said that.
Norm
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